1. Which approach of feminism is based on
the premise that both men and women are born and are gifted with the same
rational faculties so the women should not be denied equality of opportunity in
all those activities which are open to men?

(A) Existentialism

(B)
Socialist

(C)
Post-modern

(D)
Liberal

Answer: (D)

2. ____ refers to an inclusive
world-wide movement to end sexism and sexist oppression by empowering women.

(A)
Anti sexism

(B)
Feminism

(C)
Gyno centrism

(D)
Male-bashing

Answer: (B)

3. Which approach is appropriate for adequate
understanding the political orientation of feminism?

(i)
Liberal Feminism

(ii)
Socialist Feminism

(iii)
Radical Feminism

(iv)
Post modern Feminism

Codes:

(A)
(i), (ii), (iii) and (iv)

(B)
(iv) only

(C)
(ii) and (iii)

(D)
(i) and (iv)

Answer: (A)

4.
Which of the following is an incorrect statement about Liberal feminism?

(A)
Women have equal rational capacities like men

(B)
Women and men should have equal sexual rights

(C)
Women and men should be given same educational opportunities

(D)
Women and men should get equal civil and political rights

Answer: (B)

5.
What is incorrect about unified system theory?

(A)
Capitalism and patriarchy are one and the same.

(B)
Gender division of labour is a unifying concept.

(C)
Patriarchy and capitalism as forms of social relations are distinct from each
other.

(D)
Both (A) and (R) are false and (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).

Answer: (D)

16. Why was a sharp decline in Women Work
Participation Rate (WWPR) during the Census of 1971? Choose the correct answer:

(A)
The participation rate of women work was low.

(B)
The definition of ‘women work’ was changed.

(C)
The definition of ‘work’ was revised.

(D)
Most of the women opt education rather than work during the period.

Answer: (C)

17. How many women were ‘missing’ in the
world as per the World Development Report 2012?

(A)
Nearly 4 million

(B)
6 million only

(C)
3 million only

(D)
2 million only

Answer: (A)

18.
Select the title of the World Development Report 2012 from the following:

(A)
Engendering development through Gender equality, resources and voice.

(B)
Equality and development.

(C)
Gender equality and development.

(D)
Gender equality and gender justice.

Answer: (C)

19. The effective coverage of the
Maternity Benefit Act (1961) was measured by the National Commission for Enterprises
in the Unorganised Sector (NCEUS, 2009). Choose the correct one from the
following:

(A)
15%

(B)
20%

(C)
16%

(D)
25%

Answer: (C)

20. Which of the following are not correct
regarding the Parliamentary Committee on the Empowerment of Women?

Reason (R): Empowerment of women is
related to enhancement of women’s capabilities and self confidence.

Codes:

(A)
Both (A) and (R) are true.

(B)
(A) is false and (R) is true.

(C)
Both (A) and (R) are false.

(D)
(A) is true and (R) is false.

Answer: (B)

42.
Assertion (A): Entrepreneurs are only born. They cannot be made.

Reason
(R): Entrepreneurship is a challenging task.

Codes:

(A)
Both (A) and (R) are true.

(B)
Both (A) and (R) are correct and (R) is not a correct explanation of (A).

(C)
Both (A) and (R) are false.

(D)
(A) is false and (R) is true and (R) is not a correct explanation of (A).

Answer: (D)

43.
National Institute of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises is located in:

(A)
Bengaluru

(B)
Delhi

(C)
Hyderabad

(D)
Mumbai

Answer: (C)

44. Who are the Founder Directors of the
following UGC Women’s Studies Centres in India? Match the List-I with List-II:

List
– I List
– II

(a)
Pam Rajput (i)
Kerala University

(b)
Bharati Ray (ii)
Delhi University

(c)
Susheela Kaushik (iii)
Punjab University

(d)
K.B.K. Nair (iv)
Calcutta University

Codes:

(a) (b) (c) (d)

(A)
(i) (ii) (iii) (iv)

(B)
(iii) (iv) (ii) (i)

(C)
(ii) (iv) (iii) (i)

(D)
(iv) (iii) (i) (ii)

Answer: (B)

45. Improvement of maternal mortality is
focussed in Millennium Development Goal Number:

(A)
Goal 3

(B)
Goal 2

(C)
Goal 5

(D)
Goal 6

Answer: (C)

46.
Match the following from List-I and List-II:

List
– I List
– II

(a)
National Policy on Empowerment of Women (i)
1992

(b)
National Mission on Empowerment of Women (ii)
2001

(c)
High Level Committee on the Status of Women (iii)
2010

(d)
National Commission for Women (iv)
2012

Codes:

(a) (b) (c) (d)

(A)
(iii) (ii) (iv) (i)

(B)
(iv) (ii) (iii) (i)

(C)
(i) (iv) (iii) (ii)

(D)
(ii) (iii) (iv) (i)

Answer: (D)

47.
Match the following from List-I and List-II:

List
– I (Authors) List
– II (Books)

(a)
Arundhati Roy (i)
The Long Silence

(b)
Shashi Deshpande (ii)
The Inheritance of Loss

(c)
Anita Desai (iii)
The God of Small Things

(d)
Kiran Desai (iv)
Fire on the Mountain

Codes:

(a) (b) (c) (d)

(A)
(i) (iii) (ii) (iv)

(B)
(iii) (i) (iv) (ii)

(C)
(ii) (iv) (i) (iii)

(D)
(iv) (ii) (iii) (i)

Answer: (B)

48.
Match the following from List-I and List-II:

List
– I (Player) List
– II (Game)

(a)
Saina Nehwal (i)
Tennis

(b)
Sania Mirza (ii)
Boxing

(c)
Mc Mary Kom (iii)
Badminton

(d)
Karnam Malleswari (iv)
Weight Lifting

Codes:

(a) (b) (c) (d)

(A)
(iii) (i) (ii) (iv)

(B)
(iv) (ii) (iii) (i)

(C)
(i) (iii) (iv) (ii)

(D)
(ii) (iii) (iv) (i)

Answer: (A)

49.
The UN Rapporteur on Violence Against Women (2013) is:

(A)
Anne Walker

(B)
Radha Kumaraswami

(C)
Charlotte Bunch

(D)
Rashida Manjoo

Answer: (D)

50. Assertion (A): Secularization is an inevitable
consequence of industrialization.

Reason (R): Plurality of life in modern industrial
societies tends to shatter the single, comprehensive universe of meanings which
religion provides.

Codes:

(A)
(A) is false, but (R) is true.

(B)
Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is not correct explanation of (A).

(C)
(A) is true, but (R) is false.

(D)
Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).

Answer: (D)

51.
The State with the lowest female literacy rate is:

(A)
U.P.

(B)
Rajasthan

(C)
Bihar

(D)
M.P.

Answer: (C)

52. The Sexual Harassment Complaints Committee
as per the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and
Redressal) Act 2013, is required to complete the inquiry within a period of:

(A)
90 days

(B)
60 days

(C)
45 days

(D)
120 days

Answer: (A)

53. The World Values Survey provides a window
on how social perceptions have changed during the globalization process? Choose
the correct answer:

(i) Social attitudes toward women have
changed from domestic roles to social actors or an agency to change.

(ii) The bargaining power of women has
changed.

(iii) The collective action for the empowerment
of women.

(iv) Self-centredness has increased.

Codes:

(A)
(ii) only

(B)
(i) only

(C)
(i) and (iii) only

(D)
(i), (ii), (iii) and (iv)

Answer: (C)

54. ICTs have transformed the economic activity
of both women and men by increasing the demand for which skills?

65. The Constitution (Amendment) Bill passed
by Rajya Sabha that provides for reservation for women in Parliament and State
Assemblies is:

(A)
81st Amendment Bill

(B)
103rd Amendment Bill

(C)
108th Amendment Bill

(D)
111th Amendment Bill

Answer: (C)

66.
First woman to become Deputy Chairperson of Rajya Sabha:

(A)
Margaret Alva

(B)
Najma Heptullah

(C)
Violet Alva

(D)
Renuka Chaudhary

Answer: (C)

67. The percentage of Women Parliamentarians
in the World has increased from 11 percent in 1995 to _______ percent in 2013:

(A)
25

(B)
40

(C)
21

(D)
27

Answer: (C)

68.
The first Woman to receive Bharat Ratna Award:

(A)
Mother Teresa

(B)
Indira Gandhi

(C)
Sarojini Naidu

(D)
Aruna Asaf Ali

Answer: (B)

69.
The Chairperson of the Parliamentary Committee on the Empowerment of Women is:

(A)
Sumitra Mahajan

(B)
Girija Vyas

(C)
Krishna Tirath

(D)
Rajkumari Ratna Singh

Answer: (D)

70.
India ranks in Gender Inequality Index at:

(A)
128

(B)
132

(C)
126

(D)
136

Answer: (B)

71.
Which one of the following is the UN agency for women?

(A)
UNIFEM

(B)
DAW

(C)
OSAGI

(D)
UN Women

Read the passage and answer the
following questions: (Question Nos. 72-75)

The most celebrated theoretical
proposition that links women’s labour force participation with economic
development, the U-shaped feminisation hypothesis, argues that when subsistence
economies transform to developing economies, women withdraw from the labour
force and thereafter beyond a minimum threshold the participation rates of women
start rising. The U-shaped curve takes this form owing to the substitution and
income effects on women’s choice between domestic unpaid work and paid work. In
subsistence economies women contribute labour towards subsistence agricultural production
as unpaid family labour along with domestic activities, thus suffering from double
burden of work. With the rise of commercialised agriculture, structural transformation,
enhancement in household income and gender-based wage differentials, opportunity
cost of domestic activities for women increases while that of paid labour of women
decreases. Hence they tend to withdraw from the labour force, termed as the
“income effect”. With the rise of service sector, white collar jobs, institutionalised-care
giving, expansion of education among women and declining wage differentials,
the opportunity cost of paid labour for women increases. Thereafter women
“substitute” domestic activities for paid work. Yet this framework assumes away
the fundamental gender relations that regulate women’s participation in paid
work. Socialist feminist construct of the development of capitalism exploit
gender relations to explain defeminisation. With the development of capitalist
organisation of production in a patriarchal social system, female labour progressively
undergoes “female marginalisation”. The shift from attached labour in the
feudal agricultural system to wage labour in capitalist farming realigns the household
division of labour among worker households with sectoral diversification and technological
change the emerging skillbiased demand for labour is gender segregated due to
gender-biased progress in education. Women are then obligated to either
withdraw from the labour force or enter as secondary workers.